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In 1920, Lowry 1930, arranged to work in a company which collects the rent, now a day he walks through the city, and that he sees? Children playing on the streets, people returning from work and going to work, talking on the steps, events, markets.
"I saw the industrial scene, and I drew them all the time, I drew them so well as I could, and it was quite difficult."
Lowry thought that make sketches as difficult as now, he always tried to do a quick sketch of what he had seen on any piece of paper, which was in his pocket.
Lowry was careful track of his paintings at home in his studio, carefully pondering each figuru.V end of his life, he will sit in a canvas not knowing what will be shown in his painting until he starts running.
Lowry used a relatively simple base colors, which he mixed and applied to a white base their paintings. "I am a simple man, I use simple colors: ivory, black, red, blue, yellow ocher, white flakes and anything srednego.eto everything I've ever used in his paintings. "

Lowry's father died in 1932, following seven years of his 73 year-old mother complete control of his life, until her death in 1939 godu.Ona constantly demanding his attention, Lowry can work in his studio until late evening, when she falls asleep. "She does not understand my painting, but she understands me and that's enough. "These years of isolation and growing despair was reflected in his paintings, he izobrazhet abandoned buildings, districts as the mapping of their lives.
As an official artist during the war it depicts the ruins of buildings destroyed by bombing.
In 1939, when his mother dies, a man whom he most wanted to please, he had his first exhibition in London and the Lowry nakonts something eats his first success. "After she died, I lost interest in everything." Continuation of deal painting, he perceives as a debt.
Once Lowry came to success, he immediately changed the topic of his paintings, which everyone wanted, he continued. "If I were not so odinik, none of my works would not have been written."
Most of his most powerful work-desert landshafty.Samye most complicated - single figures. "I feel much stronger in these pictures than in industrialized stsenah.Eto real people, sad lyudi.Ya was attracted to sadness and some very sad things. I love them. "
Everything comes too late for slishom Louri.No in his last years he still saw his glory and became very famous, but he was not sure whether his art of living.
"I drew from childhood to childhood, he did not agree with those who believed that he had already outlived its usefulness, bailed.